Moon Phase Radiance, Escaping with the Snow Empress

Xu Tinglan was speechless.

Well, damn.

In Ming Capital, killing any random member of the royal family really was like pulling up a radish and dragging out its roots.

But Shrek and the other royal academies were probably much the same.

Xu Jing's eyes were bloodshot.

"Let's die together!"

"All my achievements were earned through killing. I'll never be some coward who hides with his tail between his legs!"

The Red Refining Spear in his hand gathered a dense bloody radiance as he continued charging forward with unstoppable momentum.

That middle-aged man's target seemed to be...

Xu Tinglan froze. Why the fuck was it me?

Something was wrong with this situation.

Did he really mean it when he said he would kill anyone who stood in his way?

Then why wasn't he killing Lin Jiayi?!

Faced with that chilling killing intent.

Xu Tinglan immediately activated the Ninth-Grade Soul Tool on his body, Moon God Radiance!

Although this Soul Tool was passively triggered, activating it manually required only a small amount of Soul Power.

Not only did it possess powerful defensive capabilities, it could also travel twenty kilometers through space.

Radiance bloomed.

Silver-white light poured down from the vault of the heavens like an overturned celestial river, dyeing heaven and earth in a layer of cold, frosty color.

The curtain of light was as thin as cicada wings, yet it seemed boundless.

Like a strip of white silk cast down from the moon palace, it drifted faintly in the night wind. Shadows and light flowed across it, while countless tiny specks of radiance fluttered down like a rain of stars.

The Red Refining Spear struck!

The instant it touched the light curtain, silver radiance rippled outward.

Like snow melting into spring water.

The incoming killing move was gently enveloped and dissolved, turning into fading rings of ripples across the light curtain before ultimately vanishing into nothingness.

The curtain did not even tremble.

Xu Tinglan stood within it, fine silver radiance clinging to his hair.

He looked incomparably sacred.

The other students widened their eyes.

They were astonished. Who had acted to block a Soul Douluo's attack?

Such power was absolutely at the level of a Title Douluo!

Lin Jiayi clutched his chest, his face filled with disbelief.

"Moon God Radiance—Silver Moon Phase!!"

"How could this Ninth-Grade Soul Tool be in that kid's hands? Elder Kong actually gave him his famed Soul Tool!"

Using the power of space.

Xu Tinglan spun around and grabbed the Snow Empress's icy little hand. With a flash of silver light, the two vanished.

The man gripped the Red Refining Spear, his chest heaving violently.

He recalled something from several days ago.

The old man's words: "Try touching my disciple." His face instantly turned ashen, all color draining from it.

It was precisely because of those words.

That the Southern King had not dared to make any excessive move. He could only go to the Zero Experimental Zone to beg forgiveness like a coward wagging his tail.

It was said that,

in the end, he had not even gotten to see that old man.

Xu Jing had come this time prepared to die.

He had received word.

That today,

all the major Level 9 Soul Masters had gathered together and were at a critical stage in their attempt to overcome a special Soul Tool. Only then had he dared to come here.

His purpose was revenge!

Not only for his nephew, but also for his younger sister, who had died crashing into the hall.

Just now,

when he recalled the words Kong Deming had spread, dark thoughts rose in his heart. He thought that killing one was killing, and killing two would be even better.

At worst, he would die!

High in the sky.

Kong Deming's silver hair nearly brushed the clouds.

He watched every movement below. Seeing his adopted son successfully escape with the Snow Empress, leaving behind only a moon phase.

He stroked his beard, a smile appearing on his face.

"Snow Empress, Snow Empress, how could your immature little thoughts possibly outmatch humanity, let alone me?"

"Hahaha!"

The girl could not have imagined it. Xu Tinglan could not have imagined it. Xu Jing, who was certain to die, could even less have imagined it.

Seventy percent of everything that had happened was within Kong Deming's grasp.

Although there had been a small mishap in the middle, the old man was still very satisfied with the result.

The current situation,

was even better than if he had acted personally.

Xu Tinglan was currently in the Sun Mountain Range.

The location he had chosen for teleportation had been to the northwest. There were few traces of human activity here, and no powerful Soul Beasts.

The youth gritted his teeth.

"Fuck, why do I feel like that bastard was calling me a coward?"

The girl looked at the ice cream in her hand and carefully took a lick.

Hearing Xu Tinglan's complaint, she blinked.

Her cool voice rang out. "Isn't your martial soul a turtle?"

Xu Tinglan laughed in anger.

He decided not to lower himself to the level of this "little girl."

"What did you do? That guy wanted to hunt you down and even led people straight into the academy."

"Meanwhile, you're calmly eating ice cream like nothing happened."

Most importantly, his adoptive father was not at Sun Moon Academy, and he still had not sent him any message.

Why was Jing Hongchen nowhere to be seen either?!

Even the signal flare Xu Tianran had given him was useless.

Remembering that armored man charging at him like a mad dog, trying to tear into him.

Yet as one of the people involved, she was still eating ice cream with an indifferent look on her face.

The Snow Empress wrinkled her nose. "If I don't eat it soon, it'll melt."

Xu Tinglan's mouth twitched slightly.

Recalling their first meeting in the competition arena, when that bone-piercing wind and snow had nearly frozen off his right arm, he felt numb inside.

"You're the Snow Maiden. If you don't want it to melt, can it really melt?"

The Snow Empress took small bites.

She answered indistinctly, "You wouldn't understand."

After finishing the ice cream.

The Snow Empress patted her little hands, then said,

"There was a disgusting person spewing filthy words and trying to put his hands on me. I merely froze off his tongue with wind and snow."

"Yet he didn't know how to be grateful and instead wanted to kill me."

The Snow Empress recalled how her kindness had once resulted in her being trapped inside the God-Sealing Platform.

This time, she had simply used the Frost Sword to kill that man, cleansing heaven and earth in the process.

Yet she had not expected things to become even more troublesome.

The Snow Empress clenched her fists.

Having just entered the human world, the various things she had encountered left her feeling somewhat depressed.

Cool words poured from the girl's small mouth like a barrage.

"He was truly awful. I should have made a three-year agreement with him."

Xu Tinglan was taken aback.

"A three-year agreement?"

The Snow Empress took out another ice cream and shot him a sidelong glance. "Forget it. I won't waste words on a country bumpkin like you. You haven't even read Soul Beast legends."

"Give me one."

"No."

"I didn't even finish my meal before rushing over to save you, and this is your attitude? Sigh..."

"Half!"

"Sigh..."

The Snow Empress took out an ice cream from her clothes and reluctantly handed it to him.

"Eat it. Stuff your mouth and shut it. You're annoying me."

Xu Tinglan took the ice cream and shoved it into his mouth.

Who would have thought that he and the Snow Empress would be in the Sun Mountain Range, bored out of their minds as they ate ice cream together?

Thinking about everything that had just happened.

He could not help but marvel at how useful the Ninth-Grade Soul Tool Moon God Radiance truly was. It had barely consumed any of his Soul Power, yet allowed him to escape so easily.

He remembered that in the future,

after Xu Tianran inherited the throne, he possessed more than a dozen Ninth-Grade Soul Tools, while Ju Zi, commander-in-chief of the three armies, also had several.

They were all trigger-type tools that did not consume the user's own Soul Power.

However, Xu Tinglan guessed that the capabilities of his Ninth-Grade Soul Tool were probably not something those other items could compare to.

He did not intend to return to Sun Moon Academy for now.

Once matters over there had been dealt with, he would assess the situation before making a decision.

He should talk with the Snow Empress first.

She was a major boss, after all.